Wanted...Is it time for a "real-life action hero"?

It's been a month since that i have been getting my weekends off, so apart from reading novels, meeting friends and family, my newest past-time is to catch up with the world TV premiere.
Even though most of these are recent releases that did not hit the right spot at the Box-Office the one that i saw on Saturday certainly led me to ponder over some serious issues.

So this weekend i happened to watch Wanted starring our very own Sallu Bhai (Salman Khan) and the little known and appreciated Ayesha Takia. Now, stop raising your eyebrows and making faces, i have been a Sallu bhai fan for ages now, in fact i fell in love with him as a kid while he was popular as a lover boy in films like Maine Pyar kiya, Sajan, Love, Hum Aapke hain kaun (have watched this one over 20 times and still counting) and many more...let's just say the characters he played made me understand what the jazz romance is all about...(i know none of it works in real life, it didn't for me).

But this blog isn't about my love for Sallu. While watching Wanted, his character in the film made me realise one thing-the need for a "real-life action hero". Sallu plays Raghuveer Shekhawat, an undercover police officer cleansing the society infested with criminals.How does he do this?? well, by pretending to be one of them. He's the underdog that captures the gangsters and corrupt officials right at their roots and justice is done at gunpoint.

In the 23 years of my god-blessed life, I personally didn't have to fight any battles with crime or corruption and I pray it stays that way. But I have been reading and observing the crucial problems that our society faces. Why is there so much suffering around us? What and who is doing it wrong that our country is plagued with so many problems? Who created these criminals (including the white-collared one), these goondas who roam about our streets threathening to sabotage our free movement?

They say to question the system one has to be a part of it and then make amends, the middle and upper-middle classes are criticised for passing comments in the comfort of their homes but then what are we to do? We have been "gifted" with the RTI which is dying its slow death, so now are we to step out with guns in our backpacks to solve our problems? Is blood on our hand the right way to a serene normal society? or is there no decent solution to this and we will all be born, live our life and die our deaths?

These are just a few among the army of questions which i'm sure many of you carry on your mind everyday while going about your routine life. Some of us have the good life-good education, package job, dining and shining at malls, clubs, et all. However, beneath the good life in which we pretend to enjoy our lives, lies a time-bomb of problems that can go blast at any time if nothing's done soon.

It was exciting to watch Sallu mindlessly bash-up the bad guys and at the end wining the war against the evil on celluloid. But the one question i'm mulling "Is it time for a "real-life action hero" to rescue us? may be not mindless killing but a decent enough alternative to bring justice to all and of course somebody who says, "Maine ek bar commitment kar di toh main apne aap ki bhi nahi sunta".

Cheers and hopes for a better tomorrow!!!